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I’m still working on a larger cast of characters Amethyst Princess of Gemworld cross stitch, but I took some time out to make a DC Nation Amethyst and Topaz.

I made it for Brianne! Unfortunately, I didn’t realize that the proportions of the border I originally put around the picture would look odd once I put the piece in a frame, so the border came out. These superhero designs were modified from a pattern I bought from weelittlestitches on etsy.

If you can’t find the comic book merchandise you want, make it yourself!

I accidentally blew away most of the images on this blog and have been adding them back to my Amethyst posts. I just realized that I hadn’t actually finished covering the very odd time Amethyst popped up in the Convergence/Book Of Fate/Weirodoverse crossover issues in the 90s.

Amethyst does appear briefly at the end of Book of Fate 8, where she takes a bath, evilly.

She shows up again to flirt with Fate in an ill-fitting purple bikini.

Other things happen, and eventually Fate gets sent to a future alien plant to hang out with Lobo!? I was really not paying very close attention at this point, but Amethyst does show up again as an old lady.

And that’s about it, for Amethyst appearances in this obscure corner of the 1990s. I do plan to cover some of the Amethyst references in Legion of Super-Heroes soon.

Chris’ Etsy store has a great selection of prints. I bought Sad Batman and Superman: Flying is the best, which I intend to frame one day and place in my Nerd/Crafting Room, once I have a house big enough to support me having a Nerd/Crafting room.

I keep meaning to do a bit more with this blog but life is pretty hectic right now. But for something fun to do, you can head on over to the DC Nation Animated Shorts page and vote for Amethyst as often as you would like to.

Sword of Sorcery‘s cancellation was recently announced. I can’t say I’m particularly surprised, as I’ve heard that the sales on the title were not good. I wonder if it would have done better at a lower price point without being split into a shorter main story + backup story. I really wish that DC had developed more of an all-ages title built around the cartoon shorts, because they really have that extra spark that could inspire more fans. Sword of Sorcery I was reading just out of a general sense of resignation because I wanted to see what would happen with this revised Amethyst character.

I really like this version of the Gemworld, with everything in it being animate and talking. It seems like a nice way of calling back to the original series art, where so many random things had faces. This just appeals to me so much more than the Sword of Sorcery reboot. The animated Amethyst is a different version, but it just seems so much more in keeping with the intent of the original comic series